Everything That Rises Must Converge

There is an absolute theme of integration in “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’ Connor.
Through the experience of reading this short story, we can depict the characters’ past experiences.
There are two incompatible personalities in the passage, Mrs. Chestney, the mother, which represents the transition from the old South, and Julian, the son, who represents the transition of the new South.
Due to the fact that Mrs. Chestney was the granddaughter of

past, but when his mother dies, the love that he was unable to express comes out when he cries, “Darling, sweetheart, wait.”
In conclusion, Mrs. Chestney was trying to make the past present and that caused many conflicts between her son and herself. Since she was obsessed with her past way of living, she was trying to convince her son to follow her idiosyncrasy, but Julian was following his mind, not his mother’s heart.